Michael Eastman, Black and White in Color, 1986
Ektacolor Print, 14 x 17 1/2 in. (35.6 x 44.5 cm)
Eastman: It’s funny because it’s, it’s actually called “Black and White in Color.†It’s a color print. The wall is black and the paint was white, there was no color in it. But the about this was, it was 1986, I think, and it was the end of my abstraction for a while, for 25 years, because I didn’t think I was ever going to find an abstraction that was this good and this complicated. Everybody thought I cut it out and I did some kind of collage, but this is a straight 8 x 10 negative of an old gas station that somebody painted to make it look pretty cool, I thought, and in the middle of downtown St. Louis. So it stopped abstraction and I started moving to other things.
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